Charleston Workhouse Slave Rebellion of 1849: The Largest Workhouse Slave Uprising in U.S. History

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In July 1849, Charleston’s Workhouse, a city-run prison for enslaved Africans, erupted in a desperate, violent revolt. It was here, in a place designed to crush every ounce of freedom, that Nicholas Kelly led an uprising that became one of the most significant acts of collective resistance in South Carolina after the Stono rebellion of […]
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